Born on September 1, 1950.
1972: graduated from the Moscow Machine Tool and Tooling Institute.
1973-1975: employed at the U.S.S.R. Embassy in India.
1975: began holding top posts in the State Committee for Foreign Economic Ties and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of the U.S.S.R.
1981: graduated from the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade.
1991-1992: Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to GATT.
1992: Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade of the Russian Federation.
1993: First Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade .
1997: Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade.
1998-1999: Board Chairman and General Director of Ingosstrakh IJSC (Insurance Joint Stock Company).
May 1999: appointed Minister of Trade of the Russian Federation.
May 2000: First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
March 2001: Director of the Federal Service of Tax Police of the Russian Federation.
May 2003: Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Communities in Brussels, Belgium, as ranking Minister of the Russian Federation.
2004-2007: Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
October 9, 2007: appointed director of the Foreign Intelligence Service by a presidential decree.
Mr Fradkov has a PhD in Economics.
Fluent in English and Spanish.
Married, with two sons.